• Family : RUBIACEAE
  (Madder Or Coffee Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : COFFEE FAMILY (कॉफी फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : RUBIACEAE
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Ixora coccinea L.
• Common name : Red Ixora, Jungle 'Geranium', Flame of the woods, Sacred Ixora, Jungle flame ixora, Needle flower, Sacred Ixora
• Vernacular name : Rangan, Rugmini (Hindi); Kiskara, Kepala (Kannada); Puttapala chettu (Telugu); Paaranti (Sanskrit); Chethi, Shekki, Kattuchethi, Thechi, Thetti (Malayalam)
• Habit : Shrub
• Habitat : Cultivated
• Comments / notes : Brought into gardens from wild, now widely cultivated in tropics. 'The flowers are used in treatment of ulcers'- K.G.Bhat (personal Communication)
• Flower, Fruit : Throughout the year
• Native : India
• World Distribution : Cultivated in most parts of the world.
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : R. S. Rao and S. H. Sreeramulu, 1986 - Flora of Srikakulam District; Matthew, K.M., Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (1). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI.
• Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Raja K Swamy, Deepak Kumar, Arun Singh R. and K. Gopalakrishna Bhat (2019). Flora of Peninsular India. http://peninsula.ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Ixora coccinea. Downloaded on 3 July 2025.

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